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Can I move my asp.net mvc app into microsoft cloud?

without making a lot of changes. Did anyone try it? Are there any known patterns to work with for cloud computing using Azure platform. ...

Can I architect a web app so it can be deployed to either the cloud or a dedicated server / VPS ? How?

Is there are an architecture versatile enough that it may be deployed to either a cloud server or to a dedicated (or VPS) server with minimal change? Obviously there would be config changes but I'd rather leave the rest of the app consistent, keeping one maintainable codebase. The app would be ASP.NET &/or ASP.MVC. My dev environment is...

Windows Azure: Parallelization of the code

I have some matrix multiplication operation. I want to parallelize the execution of those operations through multiple processors.. This can be done on high performance computing cluster using MPI (Message Passing Interface). Like wise, can I do some parallelization in the cloud using multiple worker roles. Is there any means for doing t...

BPOS Single Sign on

Hi , I want to call BPOS and its functions from another web application. The web application uses the same credentials that I want to use with BPOS. I think BPOS doesnot supports Single Sign On (SSO). Is there any alternative to implement it? ...

HTTPS WCF web service on cloud

Hi, I want to create a HTTPS WCF web service on azure and want to use it in a desktop application. Can any one guide me in right direction to achieve this? ...

Use Azure Appfabric on a local system

Hi there, we want to use the azure appfabric for our software. But not every customer wants to buy an expensive azure account. Is it possibile to define and use an azure interface in our software but to connect the server and client local? Mimefilt ...

how much of a challenge is it to port a asp.net application to azure?

I have a partly developed asp.net application, but now the client wants it to be developed in azure. How much of the existing code can be used in developing the application in azure. What challenges could we possibly encounter when we try to port an existing asp.net application to azure. Are there any other alternatives to azure in clou...

Windows Azure Table Services - Extended Properties and Table Schema

I have an entity that, in addition to a few common properties, contains a list of extended properties stored as (Name, Value) pairs of strings within a collection. I should probably mention that these extended properties widely vary from instance to instance, and that they only need to be listed for each instance (there won't be any que...

Best practice for http redirection for Windows Azure

I have an azure website which is named: http://myapp.cloudapp.net Of-course this URL is kind of ugly so I set up a CNAME that points http://www.myapp.com to the azure url. All is well up until here, but there is a snag. http://myapp.cloudapp.net has leaked out and now is indexed by google and lives on other sites. I would like ...

How to Log exceptions caught in WCF service deployed on Azure

Hi All, What is the best way to log the exceptions caught in WCF service hosted on cloud? ...

Why doesn't Microsoft support OLE DB connections to SQL Azure?

At the MSDN website it says, "Connecting to SQL Azure by using OLE DB is not supported." There are other places on the web where folks report that it works fine for them after tweaking the server name in the connection string, such as here and here. Even SQL Server's Analysis Services uses OLE DB to connect to SQL Azure! I develop a n...

Windows Azure: how to measure the execution time of a code

I wanted to measure the execution time of my code running on windows azure cloud across multiple instances. Can anyone tell me how to do it. ...

Windows Azure: Argument Exception was unhandled

I want my Azure application to create a blob and write a data into it. When I tried it I got this exception stating that ArgumentException was unhandled Stream was not writable here is my code var ms = new MemoryStream(); for (int k = 0; k < 10; k++) { using (StreamWriter sw = new Stre...

Issue with the configuration of HTTPS WCF hosted on Azure

Hi, I using a third party secure WCF service hosted on Azure . I am trying to create my own secure HTTPS service but I am not able to use it. I am able to host it on Azure however when I use it in a client application I got following error "There was no endpoint listening at https://xxxx.cloudapp.net/AsycServ/ AsycServCallback .svc tha...

Is there an alternative to azure for porting .net applications

Hi, We are having a .net application which we plan to move to the cloud. I hear a lot of people say if its .net app go for azure. Are there any other alternatives for it in terms of ease of porting and pricing Thanks Prady ...

On Azure Development Storage I get "the specified blob already exists" when uploading block blob in parallel

Hi, Wondering if you clever people can help me with a right doozy of a bug. I'm uploading blob blocks in parallel and this works perfectly fine when running against live storage however against dev storage I get the error "The specified blob already exists" for the occasional block. The weird/ironic thing is that if the blob does alrea...

Does Azure Shared Access Signature mean anyone can access my blobs?

I am writing a backup service to backup a SQL database and save it in cloud storage. I have actually implemented this already with Amazon S3 but as the application will be distributed to customers, I cannot have the API keys stored with the application. I considered using a web service to provide the keys, but it's not my best option at ...

Getting started with Azure Storage coming from a relational database point of view

I'm designing a new system, and I have need to store a pretty large volume of different type of data, with realitivly few rows per type. I know that if I were doing this with SQL Server (I don't want to use a SQL Azure database for this.) I'd make a new table for each type of data and make the correct relationships. I'm wondering if any...

Azure and Dot net

Hi Guys, As we all know Microsoft came up with the Windows Azure platform. I want to know is that do we'll need to work(learn) on Azure platform to make cloud based application or we can also do the same with the dot net. If not then I think Dot net will be surppressed by this Platform or Microsoft will do it. Thanks ...

Best approach to authenticate the client certificate

Hi, I have hosted a secure WCF service on cloud with a certificate created by makecert. Now I want to restrict the access to the service by allowing only those clients who have the certificate generated by me. What is the best approach to implement this * Shall I go with the changes in the configuration file * Or Shall I write the c...